Documentary explores life in Central Florida's retirement capitol, the Villages

[jacksonbrown]

Oppenheim says. "There's all these older folks acting like younger folks. There's a freedom to that, a beauty to that. It challenged ideas and stereotypes I had about aging."

read it here (https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2020/06/11/new-york-times-produced-documentary-explores-life-in-central-floridas-retirement-capitol-the-villages?media=AMP+HTML)

[NECHFalcon68]

Oppenheim says. "There's all these older folks acting like younger folks. There's a freedom to that, a beauty to that. It challenged ideas and stereotypes I had about aging."

read it here (https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2020/06/11/new-york-times-produced-documentary-explores-life-in-central-floridas-retirement-capitol-the-villages?media=AMP+HTML)

Having been here eight years and reading the characteristics of the four subjects listed in the article, I would expect it to be not very representative of villagers.

[EdFNJ]

There was a whole long thread about this back in January about the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and the slightly above teenage writer/director. Personally (just MY opinion!) I found it kind of embarrassing and really not representative of life here. Maybe if it wasn't considered a "documentary" it wouldn't have seemed so bad to me.

EDIT: Here is the original thread in the "movies" section: https://www.talkofthevillages.com/forums/talk-movies-127/new-movie-about-us-302298/

There was a TRAILER posted there as well: some kind of heaven trailer - Google Search (https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=some+kind+of+heaven+trailer)

[Velvet]

Interesting article - between my parents and my aunt and uncle they lived more than 30 years in TV. Not one of them was ever a cheerleader. Not one of them looked for another relationship, or took mind altering drugs. I think this young director was looking for extraordinary things and among over 100,000 people he found some.

[manaboutown]

I wonder if he first read "Leisureville"?

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Having been here eight years and reading the characteristics of the four subjects listed in the article, I would expect it to be not very representative of villagers.

I was thinking the same thing. Did I read that one of them lives in a camper outside The Villages?

[davem4616]

Young Mr. Oppenheim seems to have been so overwhelmed by what he was seeing, that he completely lost sight of the bigger picture that he was actually seeing

I found that age group to be very 'lacking' when it came time to really figure out what the cause of a problem was in the workplace...often they'd stop at the first thing that they found and declare victory, totally unaware that there were other issues.

[manaboutown]

I was thinking the same thing. Did I read that one of them lives in a camper outside The Villages?

It is known that a man who lives in a camper van sneaks in and hangs out at pools in TV.